For me, documentary photography and filmmaking have been a way to explore and engage with the wider world. They’ve allowed me to go places, witness events and know people I otherwise never would have seen or met. They’ve forced me to be bolder, to look deeper, to question harder. I see photography and film as tools to reveal the human condition as well as to help transform it.

Rosario Godoy, Carlos'wife delivering a speech at a public meeting with the government. After the disappearance of Carlos , Rosario took to the streets to demand his return becoming co founder of the Mutual Support Group with families of other missing persons.

"I fell in love with Guatemala during my first trip there in 1977 to study Spanish.

"I returned in 1983 as a still photographer and for the next several years covered many of the activities of the Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo (GAM), as well as the larger movement for human rights and social justice. Then I began making documentary films which examined the transition from military to civilian rule (“Under the Gun: Democracy in Guatemala”), explored the experience of children growing up in the midst of war (“If the Mango Tree Could Speak”), and followed Jennifer Harbury’s search for her missing husband (Dirty Secrets: Jennifer, Everardo and the CIA in Guatemala”).

"Most recently, I have been creating an interactive documentary website updating the stories of the characters from “Mango Tree” as a way to engage and enlighten viewers about the war and its aftermath."

This is a website 'presentation' charting the lives of children that grew up in the 1980s during the civil wars in Guatemala and El Salvador. They all lost loved ones and their childhoods were darkened by bombings and massacres.

In both countries guerrilla movements seeking economic and political reforms took on military dictatorships supported by the United States. Both wars ended in negotiated settlements: El Salvador in 1992 and Guatemala in 1996.